Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-11-16
A SENSATION! I!
Opinion Of a Fashionable Woman Of the
World.


'Do you expect to win in your dress re-
form movement" was asked of Mrs. Annie
Jenness- Miller, 10 Z. 14th St., New York,
editor of Dress.
81 hope to p'
"Why do you object to the present
style?"
"It is ungraceful, deforming and injuri-
ous."
"Do ladies generally support the re-
forms"
"Yes, very generally. My correspond
ence is very heavy. Next to Mrs. Cleve-
lands mine is said to be the largest daily
mail of any woman's in the United States,
and from not only every state in the Union
but from almost every country of Europe"
SIS the magazine, Dress, sucoeedings"
every handsomely, indeed. Dress has
been published less than year, and I am
world of the acceptance by ladies in the very
highest rank, of the reform which Dress
advocates"
| Mrs. Miller is comely woman in ap-
pearance, and is very enthusiastic in her
dress reform agitation. As the New York
| Graphic says: ''She herself is young and
attractive, with figure 80 harmoniously
developed as to suggest strength, power
and beauty"
| The reform which she is urging with so
much eloquence and grace seems to be the
coming one. Mrs. Jenness- Miller has the
advantage of high social position, being of
the same family with the late Wendell Phil
lips, and the poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes.
''It is in the fashionable world, of course,
| where all the styles are determined, and
where the change must Begin" she says.
"How do you endure so much work and
keep SO well?"
81 dress myself according to my own
ideas, and furthermore, give myself the
best of care and treatment. Six years ago,
1 was nearly exhausted from my work of
| lecturing, writing, etc.
'Tudeed, you do not look like it now %
ssNo? l am not now. l am now q per-
fectly we'll woman and intend to remain so.
You see understand the laws of life too
we'll to be, or remain ill, but strange as it
may seem for one to say who is opposed to
medicines on general principles, If I find
myself tired or feeling i'll fly to the ono
single remedy which do endorse, and that
is Warmers safe cure, which gives new en-
ergy and vitality to all my powers. 1t is
indeed what I sometimes call my stand
by / have many opportunities to recon-
mend it, and embrace them gladly, because
| know that it is thoroughly reliable, and
for women especially efcctirs. Indeed,
often find myself recommending it to my
friends as warmly as do my magazine, or
indeed my improved garments, and this
would not do did / not personally know of
its virtues!''
| Mrs. Miller insists that all women can and
must be beautiful, and will be 80 if they
follow her style Of dress and self treatment.
''Will you not state, briefly, in just what
your reform consists?'
''Oh, with pleasure! I propose . Jersey
fitting garment to be worn next to the body,
making of woman a vision of loveliness!
| II. cover this put cotton or linen
garment, of one piece, without bands or
binding, covering the entire body also.
Ill. "In place of the pettiooats, / pro-
pose one complete body covering garment
called 1eglettes.'
Nv. 1--WE abandon the corset entirely as
totally unfit for use, in its common form,
and we substitute therefor supple support
ing waist, and then we make the outside
gown as beautiful as artistic skill and COM
mon sense can design"
Mrs. Miller's words Of counsel, which
every woman should heed, will undoubted-
ly give to the women of America some new
ideas upon subject 30 very near to each
of them.